Most of you know that October is International SIDS, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month (and also Breast Cancer Awareness Month). This article will shine a light on the history and meaning for our community, and provide a resource of events and projects you can take part, if you wish, to make this month meaningful…

When I opened the box of books, a release of emotion erupted from my depths like a dormant volcano holding back ten years of smoldering feelings. It was the most jumbled mix of joy, sorrow, accomplishment, relief, awe, gratefulness, and so many other emotions I can’t name. Which makes me crazy…since words are my therapy.…

It’s October. For many people this brings about many emotions, many feelings. A feeling of isolation for some and the sense of community brought together by loss for others. We all know it’s pregnancy and infant loss awareness month. October 15th is a day dedicated to remembering all of the babies gone too soon. Often…

Do you have a friend whose baby died? Maybe she took a healthy baby home and months later her son died tragically of SIDS. Or maybe he never got to meet his baby awake outside of the womb because his daughter was stillborn. Maybe you have a friend who suffered a miscarriage more than once…

Johnny Cash was known as The Man in Black. He chose to wear black to stand with those struggling with pain and oppression in this world. The broken ones. When my mother died, I watched Walk the Line again and again. Because, that’s what I do, beyond going to the Bible and sitting at the…

I got a box. That is what I held onto as I left the hospital after the stillbirth of my daughter ~ a sad little container with a votive candle, a paper measuring tape, her clothes, and a non-profit pamphlet. Honestly, there may have been more, but nothing struck me as memorable. And it all…